Classified Toolkit Reveals Operational Blueprint Behind Anti-Israel Campus Protests
Leaked U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights manuals instruct activists to deny Oct. 7th sexual violence, target politicians' homes, and employ security tactics to avoid detection
A senior researcher at the University of Haifa has released previously classified documents detailing how organizations allegedly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood orchestrated anti-Israel activism on American college campuses. Dr. Kobby Barda, an expert in American political history and international relations at the Haifa Incubator for the Study of Religions, made the over 100 pages of materials public following President Trump’s executive order initiating the process to designate the transnational Islamist movement as a terrorist organization. Posting on X, Dr. Barda wrote:
“Now that the president has already signed an order outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood, and after I finished writing a very substantial academic paper on how the movement emerged, I am sharing for the first time classified materials that I received from someone who infiltrated the heart of the organization and passed them on to me.”
The leaked documents, published by the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, provide a detailed operational blueprint for campus activists. The materials include three major toolkits: a propaganda guide on “How to Respond to Israel Supporters - From Zionists to Moderates,” an “Antizionist-Toolkit” updated in February 2024, and a “City Council Palestine Organizing Toolkit” from December 2023.
The materials include strategic targeting guidance, tactical instructions for direct actions and “birddogging” of politicians, talking points for protesters, security protocols to avoid identification, and media exploitation strategies following demonstrations.
Systematic Disinformation Campaign
The document, titled “How to Respond to Israel Supporters - From Zionists to Moderates During the Genocide of the Palestinians,” functions as a propaganda manual filled with debunked claims. The guide characterizes Israel’s actions as “genocide” and labels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal” before coaching activists on manipulating public discourse.
Most disturbingly, the toolkit instructs activists to deny October 7th atrocities. It dismisses evidence of sexual violence against Israeli women as fabrications, claiming “there are no substantiated claims of rape from any first hand accounts”—despite overwhelming testimony from survivors and forensic evidence. The document attacks journalists who reported on sexual violence, attempting to discredit their work through guilt by association.
The manual promotes the conspiracy theory that Israel deliberately killed its own civilians on October 7th, claiming “Israel was responsible for most of the deaths that day.” This modern blood libel echoes centuries-old antisemitic tropes.
On hospital bombings, the toolkit instructs activists to dismiss Israeli evidence as “debunked” and encourages spreading narratives that Israel systematically targets medical facilities while ignoring Hamas’s documented use of hospitals as military command centers.
Erasing Hamas Responsibility & Downplaying Jewish Connection to Israel
The guide dedicates substantial space to neutralizing pro-Israel arguments. On LGBT rights, it dismisses concerns about Hamas’s persecution of gay Palestinians as “fearmongering with roots in Islamophobia.” Regarding Jewish history, it provides talking points denying Jewish connection to Israel, claiming “most of the Jews who settled in Israel have ancestry in Europe.”
The document systematically absolves Hamas of responsibility, acknowledging the group’s 1988 charter “states that jihad against Jews is required until Judgement Day” but dismissing this by citing a 2017 revision. It even blames Israel for Hamas’s existence, claiming “Hamas was also initially funded by Israel as a wedge” against secular Palestinian organizations.
When addressing hostages, the manual attempts semantic manipulation: “By definition, hostages are people who have been kidnapped and held, whereas prisoners have committed a crime... So why are the Palestinians considered prisoners yet the Israelis are considered hostages?” This rhetoric attempts to legitimize Hamas’s kidnapping of civilians, including children and Holocaust survivors.
Military-Style Operational Planning
The document, the “Antizionist-Toolkit”, provides military-style operational planning for confronting politicians. It categorizes members of Congress into target lists, identifying “Category 2: Enemies of the people list” consisting of Democratic leaders, specifically naming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi for “public shaming.”
The document boasts about “disrupting Biden’s campaign rallies” to “undermine his reelection,” explicitly stating this strategy “generates Amazing Media Stories.” Most alarmingly, it provides instructions for targeting politicians at their private residences, promoting “wake up call” noise demos at elected officials houses, including, a “’Bloody Blinken’ wake up call,” a “funeral procession at Rep. Glenn Ivey’s House,” and “’Blood’ in the streets at Pelosi’s mansion.”
The toolkit instructs activists to “build a rapid mobilization squad” to make “’no justice, no peace’ a reality by popping up at restaurants” where politicians eat.
Sophisticated Security Protocols
Recognizing the potentially illegal nature of recommended activities, the documents include extensive “security culture” guidance to help activists avoid identification. The toolkit instructs organizers to “only organize higher risk actions together (never alone!) and only people you trust” and establish “a vetting and onboarding system for new people.”
The security section warns: “Don’t have your full name on Signal” and provides links to “anti-doxxing” resources. It recommends recruiting specific protest roles including a “Police Liaison,” “Legal Observer,” and “Marshalls” for “de-escalation and ‘eyes on the street’”—language anticipating confrontations with law enforcement.
“Birddogging”: Weaponized Confrontation
An entire section focuses on “birddogging”—where “activists who repeatedly seek out elected officials, pin them down with specific questions or information, and retrieve their views.” The document provides a step-by-step “recipe”: “Get good seats, Blend in, clap loudly, RAISE that hand, Ask/record, rinse, repeat, Handshake/selfie! Give the media your story.”
The guide encourages infiltrating town halls, award ceremonies, and holiday events, and even staking out restaurants to ambush politicians with hostile questioning. It instructs protesters to “flood the event with a significant group of supportive folks and disrupt at a key moment” and “hand out fliers cleverly disguised as programs.”
Examples celebrated include disrupting Senator Duckworth’s mosque visit, middle school activists confronting Pelosi, and protesters “getting on stage in DC” at official events.
Message Control and Media Manipulation
The propaganda manual warns activists to “be very clear about actors: who the aggressor is (Israel) and who the oppressed is (Palestinians). Do not use passive voice.” It instructs them to preemptively discredit corrections by warning audiences about “rampant Israeli state propaganda.”
The toolkit emphasizes social media amplification, instructing activists to record confrontations and “promote on social media.” It explicitly frames coordination: “This is genocide. Sound the alarm!..The most important thing everyday individuals can do is PROTEST in large groups around the world”—language designed to justify escalating tactics.
Infiltrating Local Government
The document, a “City Council Palestine Organizing Toolkit”, reveals a sophisticated strategy to infiltrate local government with pro-Hamas messaging. The manual provides templates for city council resolutions calling for ceasefire while framing U.S. support for Israel as local taxpayer issues.
The toolkit instructs activists on “power mapping” city councils to identify vulnerable members, hosting “week(s) of action” to make Palestine “the central issue at the Council,” and building “grassroots advocacy capacity with digital tools” to flood council members with coordinated messaging. It provides detailed case studies from cities including San Francisco, St. Louis, Chicago, and dozens of others where activists successfully passed resolutions.
Most revealing is the document’s guidance on manipulation tactics: activists are instructed to tell “personalized stories” that have moved “committee members and council members to tears,” use “Palestinian voices to the front,” and connect Palestine to councilmembers’ pet issues like “climate change” and “racial justice.”
Evidence of Highly Coordinated Campaign
Barda emphasized he is releasing the materials “in their raw form” to allow independent examination by the entire community. The toolkits represent rare primary source documentation of organizational infrastructure behind anti-Israel campus movements, providing stark evidence that campus antisemitism and political disruption followed carefully designed strategies developed by experienced operatives—not the spontaneous activism organizers claimed to represent.
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